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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 Release - DN [1]

Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com> - 16 Dec 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 Release Announcement
 December 16th, 1999

 We are pleased to announce the 8.2.3 releases of the Tcl scripting
 language and the Tk toolkit.  This is primarily a bugfix release.
 More details can be found below.  We'd like to thank all those that
 submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information
 for us to identify problems in the core.

 Where to get the new releases:
 ------------------------------

 Tcl 8.2.3 and Tk 8.2.3 are freely available in open source from the
 Scriptics web site at
         http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html
 This web page also contains additional information about the
 releases, including new features and notes about installing and
 compiling the releases.

 For additional information:
 ---------------------------

 Please visit the Scriptics Web site.
         http://www.scriptics.com/
 This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general,
 the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much
 more.

 Thank you for your contributions:
 ---------------------------------
 As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl
 community. We have a page honoring these contributions at:
         http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/contributors.html

 Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.2.2:
 --------------------------------------

 The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.2.3. A complete
 list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.
 The more complete ChangeLog is also now included with each release.

 1. Bug fixes for http package as well as patch required by TLS (SSL)
 extension that adds http::(un)register and -type to http::geturl.
 http package is now at version 2.2.

 2. Removed extra decr of numLevels in Tcl_EvalObjEx that could cause
 a seg fault.

 3. Numerous minor big fixes, including correcting the
 installation of the koi8-r encoding and tcltest1.0 on Windows.

 4. Fixed scan where %[..] didn't match anything

 5. Fixed setting of isNonBlocking flag in PipeBlockModeProc
 so you can now close a non-blocking channel without waiting.

 6. Prevented the unloading of DLLs for Unix in TclFinalizeLoad.
 This stops the seg fault on exit that some users would see (ie with
 oratcl) when using DLLs that do nasty things like register atexit
 handlers.

 7. Fixes for 'expr + {[incr]}' and 'expr + {[error]}' cases.

 8. Fixed expression error that could cause 'malformed bucket chain'
 error in tkEntry.c.

 9. Fixed Tk_NameOfColor to work as expected.

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    Jeffrey Hobbs                          The Tcl Guy
    jeffrey.hobbs at scriptics.com         Scriptics Corp.